This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Serjeant John Kydd Kennedy , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 7 January 1953
Lives of the First World War
Brigadier General Walter Dashwood Sclater-Booth , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 10 January 1953
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Colonel Otto William Alexander Elsner , Divisional Column Headquarters Staff
Died 11 January 1953
Lives of the First World War
Major General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford , 41st Division Staff
Died 15 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Charles Hull VC , 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
Died 21 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Private John Caffrey VC 9730, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 22 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Acting Corporal Joseph Cornelius Arthur Llanos 552802, 2/16th London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 25 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lewis Evelyn Gielgud , King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 25 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Private Eleazar Lipa Sukenik J/5226, Royal Fusiliers
Died 28 February 1953
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant John Henry Williams VC 20408, South Wales Borderers
Died 7 March 1953
Lives of the First World War
Queen Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes , Welfare
Died 24 March 1953
Lives of the First World War
Major General Richard Phillips Lee , 18th (Eastern) Division
Died 24 March 1953
Lives of the First World War
Brigadier General Wallace Duffield Wright VC , The Queen's Regiment attached Nigeria Regiment
Died 25 March 1953
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class) Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 1 April 1953
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class) The Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham , Army Chaplain's Department
Died 1 April 1953
Lives of the First World War
Brevet Major Charles Calveley Foss VC , The Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 9 April 1953
Lives of the First World War
Captain Robert Matthew Boyle , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 15 April 1953
Lives of the First World War
Private William Houghton M2/079255, Army Service Corps
Died 16 April 1953
Lives of the First World War
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Napper Tandy , General Staff Officer
Died 3 May 1953
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Joseph Thomas Farfan, CB, DSO, OBE , Royal Field Artillery
Died 20 May 1953
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Alfred Joseph Richards VC 1293, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 21 May 1953
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Douglas Walter Belcher VC , 3/8th London Regiment Depot 1/6th Gurkha Rifles
Died 3 June 1953
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Muriel Essington Anstey , Australian Army Medical Corps
Died 11 June 1953
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Ernest Walter Wade 9316, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 19 June 1953
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC and Bar , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 22 June 1953
Lives of the First World War
Major Roland Augustus Henderson , 1/4th Bn Leicestershire Regiment
Died 9 July 1953
Lives of the First World War
Private John Reginald Halliday Christie 106733, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 15 July 1953
Lives of the First World War
Company Quarter Master Serjeant Michael Joseph Callaghan 6343, South Wales Borderers
Died 7 August 1953
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Samuel Constantine Burke , British West Indies Regiment
Died 1 September 1953
Lives of the First World War
Captain James Albert Edward Hamilton , North Irish Horse
Died 12 September 1953
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Nigel Ernle Bruce , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 8 October 1953
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant W David Muirhead Bone , Lincolnshire Regt.
Died 21 October 1953
Lives of the First World War
Private Andrew Leo Hall 901253, 85th Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders
Died 28 October 1953
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Peter Hiram Atkinson, M.M. 9/104, Otago Mounted Rifles, NZ Maori Pioneer Btn; Otago Main body
Died 23 November 1953
Lives of the First World War
Company Sergeant-Major Harry Daniels VC 9665, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Died 13 December 1953
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Joseph Ernest Savill 5999321, Essex Regiment
Died 13 December 1953
Lives of the First World War
Thomas Sampson , Lancers of the Line, 17th Lancers.
Died 17 December 1953
Lives of the First World War